Nei piani di Air Europa le aperture di MEX, PTY, SJO, BOG e UIO

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Con l'arrivo dei 787 a partire dal prossimo anni, Hidalgo ha parlato alla stampa spagnola delineando i piani del network 787 che verranno utilizzati per aprire nuove rotte.
I primi 5 787-8 arriveranno nel 2016. Allo studio (di UX) anche IAD, e la BCN-MIA (complementare alla MAD-MIA gia operata).

Air Europa (UX, Palma de Mallorca Son Sant Joan) president and president of parent Globalia Corporacion, Juan José Hidalgo, has outlined the airline's plans for its incoming fleet of eight B787-8s and fourteen B787-9s.

Speaking to the Spanish media, Hidalgo said the B787 fleet would be used to open up new routes to Mexico, Panamá City Tocumen Int'l, San José Juan Santamaría in Costa Rica, Bogotá in Colombia, and Quito Int'l in Ecuador. In the United States, Air Europa is also studying Washington Dulles as well as a possible Barcelona El Prat-Miami Int'l route to compliment its existing Madrid Barajas-Miami service.

Hidalgo said Air Europa would also like to expand its network to include Johannesburg O.R. Tambo, abandoned by fellow Spanish operator Iberia (IB, Madrid Barajas) in May 2012, and possiblyShanghai Pudong in China.

The first five B787-8s will be delivered in 2016 while the first B787-9s will only begin to arrive in 2020. In preparation for the Dreamliner's arrival, the Spanish carrier is wet-leasing a LOT Polish Airlines (LO, Warsaw Chopin) B787-8 on a one year contract for use on flights from Madrid to Miami and Santo Domingo Las Américas.

With the arrival of the new Boeing twinjets, so the airline's existing longhaul fleet of twelve A330-200s and two A330-300s will be phased out between 2017 and 2018. ch-aviation